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Tue Apr 4, 2017, 07:19 AM Apr 2017

St. Petersburg suicide bombing suspect believed to be Kyrgyzstan national

Source: New York Daily News

A suicide bomber was to blame in the deadly subway attack in St. Petersburg, Russian authorities said.

Officials have also named a suspect in the attack, but have yet to say if he was the actual attacker.

Akbarzhon Jalilov, a Russian citizen born in Kyrgyzstan, has been identified as a suspect in the bombing that killed 14 people in injured dozens more, according to the Russian GKNB sercurity service.

Russian officials haven’t said if Jalilov was the suicide bomber or played a different role.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/st-petersburg-bombing-suspect-believed-kyrgyzstan-national-article-1.3018430?utm_content=bufferc9d71

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